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Adults miscoded and misdiagnosed as having pneumonia: Results from the British Thoracic Society pneumonia audit

Daniel, Priya
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Lim, Wei Shen
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A key objective of the British Thoracic Society national community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) audit was to determine the clinical characteristics and outcomes of hospitalised adults given a primary discharge code of pneumonia but who did not fulfil accepted diagnostic criteria for pneumonia. Adults miscoded as having pneumonia (n=1251) were older compared with adults with CAP (n=6660) (median 80 vs 78 years, p Copyright Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited.
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2017
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Clinical coding
 Misdiagnosis
 Pneumonia
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NUH Respiratory
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Daniel, P., Bewick, T., Welham, S., Mckeever, T.M. and Lim, W.S. (2017) 'Adults miscoded and misdiagnosed as having pneumonia: Results from the British Thoracic Society pneumonia audit', Thorax, 72(4), pp. 376–379. doi: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2016-209405 https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2016-209405.
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Available to view on the publisher's website here: https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2016-209405.
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